This is not an easy topic. But it’s something we need to talk about – for the sake of our kids.

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A teenager cannot understand the lifelong implications of losing his or her fertility. A middle schooler doesn’t understand that a bully mocking her body will not stop if her body changes, and that the problem is with the bully, not with her. Doctors should never cut off healthy body parts from patients whose brains have not fully developed and who are too young to vote or buy alcohol.

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It is well past time for Canada to join other countries in carefully reviewing how we practice “gender medicine”.